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Caste
Oct 23 2009, veena

“Being born a scheduled caste is the biggest curse for me”. The last words of Pappu Singh Darnal, a 46 year old school teacher in Darjeeling were found written on a page of 2002 diary.

He committed suicide by hanging himself. He was working as a...

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